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Essential Reading
Silva, D. Ferreira da (2007) Toward a global idea of race.
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
Silva, D. Ferreira da (2003/2014) Notes towards the end of
time. Living Commons 1(2).
Further Reading
Silva, D. Ferreira da (2016) Fractal Thinking. Accessions No.
2
Silva, D. Ferreira da (2015) Hacking the black subject: Black
Feminism, Refusal, and the Limits of Critique. Presented at
Barnard College, 22 October 2015.
Chakravartty, P, Silva, D. Ferreira da (2013) Race, empire,
and the crisis of the subprime. Baltimore, Maryland: Johns
Hopkins University Press.
Questions
How does post-Enlightenment thinking construct universality
according to Denise Ferreira da Silva? How does it engage with
‘race’?
Why does Denise Ferreira da Silva believe that “the racial is
the single most important ethico-juridical concept in the
global present” (2016)?
What are Denise Ferreira da Silva’s methods for communicating
her ideas and why do you think she chooses to communicate in
these ways?